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authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>2024-01-25 15:55:07 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-02-22 15:38:54 -0800
commit9c1b86f8ce04ec4aa22c1119480b3950bf4724c8 (patch)
tree2ced6dfdc3ac5aea0bc4795822d525d6418a3b66
parent5eccc067f0173246dea5dede684d20a56b15645f (diff)
kbuild: raise the minimum supported version of LLVM to 13.0.1
Patch series "Bump the minimum supported version of LLVM to 13.0.1". This series bumps the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel to 13.0.1. The first patch does the bump and all subsequent patches clean up all the various workarounds and checks for earlier versions. Quoting the first patch's commit message for those that were only on CC for the clean ups: When __builtin_mul_overflow() has arguments that differ in terms of signedness and width, LLVM may generate a libcall to __muloti4 because it performs the checks in terms of 65-bit multiplication. This issue becomes harder to hit (but still possible) after LLVM 12.0.0, which includes a special case for matching widths but different signs. To gain access to this special case, which the kernel can take advantage of when calls to __muloti4 appear, bump the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel to 13.0.1. 13.0.1 was chosen because there is minimal impact to distribution support while allowing a few more workarounds to be dropped in the kernel source than if 12.0.0 were chosen. Looking at container images of up to date distribution versions: archlinux:latest clang version 16.0.6 debian:oldoldstable-slim clang version 7.0.1-8+deb10u2 (tags/RELEASE_701/final) debian:oldstable-slim Debian clang version 11.0.1-2 debian:stable-slim Debian clang version 14.0.6 debian:testing-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19) debian:unstable-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19) fedora:38 clang version 16.0.6 (Fedora 16.0.6-3.fc38) fedora:latest clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc39) fedora:rawhide clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc40) opensuse/leap:latest clang version 15.0.7 opensuse/tumbleweed:latest clang version 17.0.6 ubuntu:focal clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1 ubuntu:latest Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1 ubuntu:rolling Ubuntu clang version 16.0.6 (15) ubuntu:devel Ubuntu clang version 17.0.6 (3) The only distribution that gets left behind is Debian Bullseye, as the default version is 11.0.1; other distributions either have a newer version than 13.0.1 or one older than the current minimum of 11.0.0. Debian has easy access to more recent LLVM versions through apt.llvm.org, so this is not as much of a concern. There are also the kernel.org LLVM toolchains, which should work with distributions with glibc 2.28 and newer. Another benefit of slimming up the number of supported versions of LLVM for building the kernel is reducing the build capacity needed to support a matrix that builds with each supported version, which allows a matrix to reallocate the freed up build capacity towards something else, such as more configuration combinations. This passes my build matrix with all supported versions. This is based on Andrew's mm-nonmm-unstable to avoid trivial conflicts with my series to update the LLVM links across the repository [1] but I can easily rebase it to linux-kbuild if Masahiro would rather these patches go through there (and defer the conflict resolution to the merge window). [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/20240109-update-llvm-links-v1-0-eb09b59db071@kernel.org/ This patch (of 11): When __builtin_mul_overflow() has arguments that differ in terms of signedness and width, LLVM may generate a libcall to __muloti4 because it performs the checks in terms of 65-bit multiplication. This issue becomes harder to hit (but still possible) after LLVM 12.0.0, which includes a special case for matching widths but different signs. To gain access to this special case, which the kernel can take advantage of when calls to __muloti4 appear, bump the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel to 13.0.1. 13.0.1 was chosen because there is minimal impact to distribution support while allowing a few more workarounds to be dropped in the kernel source than if 12.0.0 were chosen. Looking at container images of up to date distribution versions: archlinux:latest clang version 16.0.6 debian:oldoldstable-slim clang version 7.0.1-8+deb10u2 (tags/RELEASE_701/final) debian:oldstable-slim Debian clang version 11.0.1-2 debian:stable-slim Debian clang version 14.0.6 debian:testing-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19) debian:unstable-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19) fedora:38 clang version 16.0.6 (Fedora 16.0.6-3.fc38) fedora:latest clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc39) fedora:rawhide clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc40) opensuse/leap:latest clang version 15.0.7 opensuse/tumbleweed:latest clang version 17.0.6 ubuntu:focal clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1 ubuntu:latest Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1 ubuntu:rolling Ubuntu clang version 16.0.6 (15) ubuntu:devel Ubuntu clang version 17.0.6 (3) The only distribution that gets left behind is Debian Bullseye, as the default version is 11.0.1; other distributions either have a newer version than 13.0.1 or one older than the current minimum of 11.0.0. Debian has easy access to more recent LLVM versions through apt.llvm.org, so this is not as much of a concern. There are also the kernel.org LLVM toolchains, which should work with distributions with glibc 2.28 and newer. Another benefit of slimming up the number of supported versions of LLVM for building the kernel is reducing the build capacity needed to support a matrix that builds with each supported version, which allows a matrix to reallocate the freed up build capacity towards something else, such as more configuration combinations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240125-bump-min-llvm-ver-to-13-0-1-v1-0-f5ff9bda41c5@kernel.org Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1975 Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/38013 Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/3203143f1356a4e4e3ada231156fc6da6e1a9f9d Link: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240125-bump-min-llvm-ver-to-13-0-1-v1-1-f5ff9bda41c5@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V (IBM)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/changes.rst2
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/min-tool-version.sh2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 50b3d1cb1115..d7306b8cad13 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
Program Minimal version Command to check the version
====================== =============== ========================================
GNU C 5.1 gcc --version
-Clang/LLVM (optional) 11.0.0 clang --version
+Clang/LLVM (optional) 13.0.1 clang --version
Rust (optional) 1.74.1 rustc --version
bindgen (optional) 0.65.1 bindgen --version
GNU make 3.82 make --version
diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
index 9faa4d3d91e3..5d17022ee1f6 100755
--- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ llvm)
elif [ "$SRCARCH" = loongarch ]; then
echo 18.0.0
else
- echo 11.0.0
+ echo 13.0.1
fi
;;
rustc)